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Unlike the Maideno, who were driven out of their homes and had to drift at sea, Tando left the land on their own initiative to avoid taxes, and they were easily ostracized by the locals after docking, so they generally lived by the seashore and worked together in conflict with the locals. www.biquge.info But if the child becomes an orphan and cannot afford to provide for it, it is not uncommon for the child to be sold into slavery.

Speaking of which, Lu Dan has come here for the second time, and his younger brother Lu Yu is the first time to come back. The only father who knew the sea had fallen into the sea with the sail line, and now he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and although the two of them said they could sail a boat, the fishing boat had no sails or oars, and was completely unable to move on the sea. After the raging storm, the ship's shelter had been blown away, and now the two of them had nothing to hide in the sun, and even the newborn sun still burned the two brothers to the point of hunger and thirst. They both looked around, but there was no end to it except the sea and the sea, and there was not a single cloud in the sky, and there were only waves on the surface of the sea. They knew very well that their father was beaten into the sea last night, and it was basically nine deaths, and last night was already a life and death.

The two looked at each other for a while, but neither of them spoke, in fact, they didn't know what to say, and the two boys, who were not even thirty years old, had no plan to deal with this kind of thing. It's typhoon season, and although Tando doesn't have a typhoon with satellites in the Pacific Ocean like in the old world, they all know that typhoons have been raging since the beginning of this season, and they all choose to hide in the harbor for a few months. If Tando chooses to go out to sea to fish, it usually chooses to do so in the season when there are no typhoons, and the same is true for maritime merchants. Drifting on the sea like the two of them now, there will basically be no ships passing by, and within three days, the two of them will only die of thirst and starvation.

Their father chose to go to sea at this time, in fact, there was no way, because the ship broke down when the group went to sea before, and the fleet came back when it was repaired, so he could only take risks and risk the possibility of encountering strong winds and waves to go out to sea to catch fish. He supported three children by himself, the first two were thirteen or fourteen years old, and the youngest daughter was only eight years old. Last year, I had saved some silver, but all the repairs were spent, and if I didn't go to sea, I was afraid that I would have to starve to death, so this was the only option. There are hundreds of miles from Xu Wen here, and the fleet usually replenishes fresh water on an island a little more south, and then starts fishing a day south, and now their boat has suffered a disaster, let alone continue fishing, and even going to the island to the south is hopeless.

"Captain! Discover more wreckage! The lookout at the top of the mast shouted loudly, pointing to the side of the ship, "Over there—"

Zhong Bin pointed at the rudder, the helmsman hurriedly corrected the direction, Zhong Bin raised the telescope and looked over, and there were indeed a lot of wreckage and debris floating on the sea. The Chunxiao approached, and a lot of hard sail fragments drifted to the side of the hull.

"A whole hard sail has been made like this," the first mate sighed beside him, "I guess the man is hopeless." ”

"Why don't we go back?" The gunner said on the side, and the second officer nodded again and again. "Captain, I guess I can't save it, let's go back."

Zhong Bin himself is actually at a loss, the situation of the fragments of this ship now looks not optimistic, he not only saw the mast and sail, the fragments on the sails abounded, and there were even a lot of fragments of the hull and shed. Where the hell is this ship? Is there any damage? Could it have sunk already? Is it too late to rush over now?

"Captain! It's off course! Zhong Bin, who was pondering, heard Lin Bei's shout in his ears, "Are we going back to the original route?" He turned his head, and Limbe was looking at the sun with a sextant. Captain, there are already reefs in this area, so we need to be careful. ”

"yes, okay." Zhong Bin nodded and ordered loudly, "Return to the route." The helmsman began to turn the wheel in the direction that Limbey had announced.

"Captain, we're going to pass an island directly ahead of us, and if we don't find a damaged ship there, it's probably really sunk." Limbey continued, "The island is a place with fresh water, and fishing boats usually replenish fresh water there. ”

"Okay." Zhong Bin didn't speak, just stared in the direction of progress, and after a while, he shouted, "Lin Bei! Calculate how far it is from here to where we found the mast? ”

Lin Bei lowered his head and measured it with a ruler for a while, then took out a small notebook and calculated it for a while, and replied loudly, "Report to the captain!" The distance from here to where the mast was last found is six nautical miles! ”

"There are reefs in this area," the first mate said on the side, "the current situation will be more complicated, maybe the ship will sink here, and there will be more backflow next to the reef......

"Watch!" Zhong Bin just shouted at the observation post on the mast, and walked directly to the chart table and looked down at the chart.

"Report! Urgent telegram! The herald ran up from the lower deck, "The typhoon is approaching, and all Senate naval ships must return to port at once to take shelter!" As he spoke, he handed the telegram to Zhong Bin.

Zhong Bin's face was gloomy, he silently took the telegram, looked at the words on it, and came to the chart table again.

"There's a typhoon coming from here right now." He said, gesturing to the south of the map, "It is expected that in twenty-four hours it will be along the coastline all the way north, and if it goes north, it will pass the port of the East." ”

Lin Bei was secretly frightened, although he said that he didn't have much intuitive feeling about looking at the map, but he could predict a typhoon, which was much more powerful for him. He carefully looked at the area on the map that Zhong Bin's hand had scratched, and that area was exactly the area where he thought there might be a shipwreck. "Captain, if a typhoon passes by, won't we have no way to search for it?"

Zhong Bin nodded, "Yes, don't talk about our ship, even if the Victory is here, it can only return, and we are all vulnerable in the face of the typhoon." ”

"The captains' Dongfeng should still be fine, right?" The second mate interjected next to him, Zhong Bin nodded, "That one may be fine, but we definitely can't hold it." ”

"Then let's start heading back, shall we?" Lin Bei asked tentatively.

Zhong Bin was silent, and after about half a minute, he took out the telegram from his pocket and looked at it carefully, and then looked at it carefully in combination with the chart, and finally made up his mind and said, "No, we still have some time, the typhoon still has more than half a day to arrive, and we should be able to regain a little time." ”

As he spoke, he looked back at the clock, "It's eleven o'clock in the morning, and the warning says that the typhoon will arrive in this area around three o'clock in the afternoon." As he spoke, Zhong Bin pointed to the location of the island on the chart, "How far are we now?" ”

"We are still ten nautical miles away from the island, and if we follow the normal speed, we should be able to arrive at about one o'clock in the afternoon, but there is no time to conduct a careful search." ”

Zhong Bin nodded, "Okay, herald!" The herald hurriedly stood up.

"Pass my command and follow the course parameters given by the navigator to the south at full speed!" As he spoke, he thought for a moment, "Send a telegram to the naval command and ask for support, preferably a cruiser or destroyer to assist in the search of this sea area." As he spoke, he reported the coordinates of the sea area.

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"What? Heading for a typhoon? Bu Zhongfu almost dropped his eyeballs, "What the hell is this Zhong Bin doing?" It's over towards the typhoon area, and it's still such a lucky boat, going to die? As he spoke, he threw the newspaper on the chart table.

Tang Xunliang was stunned for a moment, "And this matter?" When we returned this morning, we saw the Chunxiao leaving the port, they were not going to carry out a cruise mission, what were they doing in the typhoon area? It's still a long way from a few patrol navigation points. ”

"This is not true," Bu Zhongfu flipped through the messy telegram on the table, and quickly turned out a telegram from the Chunxiao and handed it to Tang Xunliang, "They found a severed mast in the channel this morning, suspected that there was a shipwreck nearby, and wanted to search and rescue nearby, I approved it, but I didn't ask them to go to the typhoon area!" ”

Tang Xunliang pursed his mouth, looked at the newspaper carefully, and carefully checked the chart. "Don't say it, we fished in this fishing ground this morning, but at this time it is already typhoon season, and Tanhu will not come out to fish at this time, and the maritime merchants also know that this season is typhoon season, so it is impossible to come out to fish at this time." He pondered for a moment, "Could it be that he wants to defect?" ”

"Defection?" Bu Zhongfu was shocked again, "How is this possible? Isn't he doing well here? Is it like that to defect? ”

"It's hard to say," Tang Xunliang shook his head and continued, "First of all, what do you think, what did he Zhong Bin do before?" He's a pirate leader, and when we caught him in the past, he killed not a thousand but eight hundred, and now he is so enthusiastic about rescuing shipwrecked, why do I feel that something is wrong? Then let's talk about this pirate head, who used to have thousands of people and dozens or hundreds of ships under his command, but now he only has one ship at hand, and although the people on the ship listen to him, they are all soldiers of the Senate, not to mention that this ship used to be his own. Speaking of which, if he defected, there really wasn't much to say. ”

"You mean to send a cruiser or a destroyer in pursuit?" Bu Zhongfu asked tentatively, "I'm just wondering where he went with this frigate." ”

"The pursuit is definitely wanted, but there are also strange places, such a large area, why did he go towards the typhoon? I think it's a bit strange, if you want to say defection, you can go east or south and leave the reconnaissance range of Vostochny Harbor. Tang Xunliang said and picked up the teacup on the table next to him and took a sip of tea, "If you want me to say, now you should send a reconnaissance plane to reconnoiter whether there is really a shipwreck in the nearby waters, and if there is, let him go to the rescue, if not, it will be good to break his excuse." ”

"Well, well, I see, it will take about half an hour for the plane to fly after reconnoitring this area, and with the time consumed on the road, it should be able to rescue the victims before the typhoon arrives." Bu Zhongfu said and called the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and sure enough, the Joint Chiefs of Staff approved his request to allow a hundred tongues to conduct a reconnaissance at sea.

"Anyway, shouldn't we get a naval aviation out ourselves?" Tang Xunliang said and nodded on the chart, "Without our own naval aviation, it's very troublesome." ”

"Naval aviation? According to what you said, are we still going to build an aircraft carrier? Bu Zhongfu raised his nose with some disdain.

"Forget about aircraft carriers," Tang Xunliang shook his head, "We don't have the ability to build aircraft carriers at this stage, but we can equip seaplanes." Seaplanes are very important for navigation, not only can they quickly reconnoiter the situation in the nearby seas, but also can carry incendiary flares to assist in attacking, in addition, seaplanes are not difficult to fly at sea, they can be hoisted into the sea with a crane to take off, and they can also use catapults to catapult and take off. ”

"Why don't I know? But now the Air Force itself has a total of three planes, and pilot training is also stretched, and the number of people is far behind," Bu Zhongfu shrugged, "Who knows if Yuan Zhenli will be like Liu Yalou or Goering, and everything that can fly in the sky will be under the control of the Air Force." ”

"I'll go, you can put Liu Yalou and Goering together," Tang Xunliang smiled, "Don't say anything else, Yuan Zhenli is from our old world, he should have a concept of the overall direction, and he won't do such a short-sighted thing." ”

"Hopefully......" Bu Zhongfu sighed.

"Ahh Yuan Zhenli couldn't help but sneeze, he didn't know why he was sneezing at this time, he had just received an order from the Joint Staff Committee, asking to immediately take off a hundred tongues to the coordinates given by the Joint Staff Committee to check whether there was a shipwreck nearby.

However, experience taught him that this could not be an ordinary shipwreck, as they were not only required to take off immediately, but also to take off with reloaded rockets. It didn't look like he'd scouting the neighborhood, but attacking something.

He rubbed his nose, looked at Lin Jinlai who was sitting in the cockpit, beckoned at him and shouted, "Xiao Linzi, fly the plane well, remember to contact if you have something!" ”

Lin Jinlai hurriedly saluted him, and then shouted loudly at Yuan Zhenli, "Yes!" Chief, we will definitely remember. ”

Soon the plane began to glide on the runway, and then it left the ground shortly after, circled for a week, and flew in a southeasterly direction.

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